When large marine animals change their movement patterns, it often signals broader shifts in ocean conditions. Dr. Meynecke ...

Kemp’s ridley sea turtles, one of the most endangered sea turtle species on Earth, live in some of the noisiest waters on the ...

For the world’s smallest sea turtles, life in the ocean is getting pretty noisy. These relatively little turtles (on average ...

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of ...

Some dolphins in Shark Bay use sea sponges as tools while hunting, revealing a rare example of learned behavior passed across ...

For decades, a single whale’s strange 52-hertz call has baffled scientists, raising haunting questions about its identity, ...

New research shows endangered sea turtles hear low ship noise clearly, raising questions about how busy coastlines affect their lives.

In the late 1980s, a set of military ears listening for submarines instead picked up something far stranger: a solitary, ...

Some animal facts sound like internet exaggerations until you look at the research behind them. Biologists and field ...

You don’t need to have ever seen a hagfish to have an idea of a hagfish. I mean, it’s called a hagfish for crying out loud.

Kemp's ridley sea turtles are among the most endangered species of sea turtles in the world. They reside along the east and ...

Animal names often sound precise, but many are the result of early guesswork that never got corrected. Explorers, naturalists ...